Note: I will be covering the 7:38 p.m. (Eastern time) launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis tonight via my Twitter page. I’ll also have a new blog entry up here before the event.
Sometimes, I have to laugh at the restrictions fundamentalist religions place on human behavior. I like to think of it this way: the tighter they fasten the chastity belt, the more likely stuff will pop out they don’t wanna see.
Today’s example is Ken Ham’s atrocious “creation museum”, which is more akin to a funhouse full of warped mirrors that distort reality than an actual place to learn stuff. The situation: in a film shown in the museum depicting the Biblical account of creation, it turns out the actor playing Adam has, well, bitten off more than just a chunk of apple. He used to run a “sexually suggestive” website. Ham has taken down the video pending an investigation.
Shocking! You’d think the far-right theocrats would feel a bit haggard at this point, but the hits keep on coming.
Of course, this is all pretty funny to me, since I am not above the ocassional episode of schadenfreude, especially when it comes to people like Ham, who bears false witness for a living.
And as the actor who played Adam is quoted saying:
But just because I’m Adam on the screen, that doesn’t mean I’m Adam off the screen… I’m hired to get a point across. On the flip side, if I was hired to play a murderer, that doesn’t mean I’d go out and kill somebody. It’s make-believe.
Make believe. Yes, that fits the description of the “museum” quite well, I think!
